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Palaeography for Family and Local Historians 2nd Revised Edition
Palaeography for Family and Local Historians : 2nd Revised Edition
Family and local historians frequently encounter the challenge posed by the writing, and sometimes the translation, of the records which might most enab...
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Tracing Your Ancestors' Parish Records
Tracing Your Ancestors' Parish Records
Parish records are essential sources for family and local historians, and Stuart Raymond's handbook is an invaluable guide to them. He explores and explains the fascinating and var...
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Tracing Your House History
Tracing Your House History : A Guide for Family Historians
Anyone who wants to find out about the history of their house – of their home – needs to read this compact, practical handbook. Whether you live in a manor ...
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A Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases
Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases
An interest in the middle ages often brings the non-specialist reader up short against a word or term which is not understood or only imperfectly understood. This dictionary is i...
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A Secretary Hand ABC Book
A Secretary Hand ABC Book
This book is a guide to reading old documents. It takes the reader through the alphabet with examples of how letters might appear. Each letter is matched with relevant words and illustrations i...
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Ecclesiastical Courts, Officials & Records: Sex, Sin And Probate
Ecclesiastical Courts Officials and Records : Sex, Sin and Probate
An easy-to-understand explanation of the complex organisation and procedures of Church Courts and their officials. Ecclesiastical Courts granted probat...
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Examples of Handwriting 1550-1650
Examples of Handwriting 1550-1650
This title contains handwriting examples, both for the alphabet and of commoner forenames for the period.
This book also includes a number of varieties, so as to form a nucleus for ref...
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Latin For Local And Family Historians
Latin For Local And Family Historians : A Beginner's Guide
Latin is the language of a vast quantity of source material but despite the popularity of researching family and local history there has been no recent textbook...
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Reading Latin Epitaphs
A Handbook for beginners ( with illustrations)
This compact handbook enables users to quickly and accurately read Latin epitaphs in churches, no matter what their knowledge of the language is. John Parker has reproduced...
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Understanding Documents for Genealogy and Local History
Understanding Documents for Genealogy & Local History
Genealogists and local historians have probably seen every birth, marriage, death and census record available, and are adept at using the internet for research. Howe...
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Wills Of Our Ancestors
Wills Of Our Ancestors : A Guide for Family and Local Historians
What are wills, and how can they be used for family and local history research? How can you interpret them and get as much insight from them as possible? ...
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A Handbook of Dates For Students Of British History
A Handbook Of Dates For Students Of British History : New Edition
A Handbook of Dates is an unrivalled reference book for historians. It provides in clear, user-friendly form, tables which allow the calculation of the d...
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Making Sense Of Latin Documents For Family And Local Historians
Making Sense of Latin Documents For Family & Local Historians
The farther back your research takes you, the more likely you are to come across documents partially or wholly in Latin. Index entries and catalogue descript...
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The Parish Atlas of England
The Parish Atlas of England : An Atlas of English Parish Boundaries
The Parish is the territorial unit for most
public registering in local history. In this sevenyear, solo, labour of love project, Tim Cockin has trace...
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The Parish Chest
Parish Chest
This is the third edition of a classic. It is the standard study of the parochial administration in England. It has stood the test of seven decades of intensive use and enjoys universal veneration as the un...
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Tracing Your Ancestors Through Local History Records
Tracing Your Ancestors Through Local History Records
Family history should reveal more than facts and dates, lists of names and places It should bring ancestors alive in the context of their times and the surroundings t...
Treasures Of British History
Peter & Dan Snow's Treasures of British History : The Nation's Story Told Through Its Most Important 50 Documents
Take a spirited tour of British history, as told through 50 key documents. From the Magna Carta to Hitler...